Making Ways: The Art of Music

It’s time to celebrate one year of Making Ways podcast! 50 creative minds, 50 career journeys, 50 compelling conversations…50 episodes. Over the past year, host, marketer, and illustrator Rob Goodman has sat down with creatives of all stripes to discuss the winding journeys to their most fulfilling careers. Our guests have navigated unexpected paths and come out on the other side to share pitfalls...

Independent creative entrepreneur Dava Guthmiller wears many hats. As the founder and chief creative officer of branding and design agency Noise 13, she leads a mostly female team in taking on big creative projects. Dava is also the cofounder of In/Visible Talks, a conference about the creative process, and founder and CEO of Revel & Rouse , an online cannabis magazine for women. On this episode o...

In life, we are often so fixated on moving forward that we overlook past passions worth revisiting. On today’s episode, we chart the amazing journey of Miriam Stone. Miriam is a published memoir author who switched gears after hitting writer’s block and found a career in business and marketing as a brand strategist. After the 2016 election, Miriam harnessed her years of training for political acti...

As a child, Sarah Weiner loved food the way other little kids might love music. Her mom would hand her a treat and she'd be an angel all afternoon. Sarah also had a fondness for raising awareness for endangered species and caring for those in need. Years later she would come to realize that her passion for food and making the world a better place could come together to help reshape the nation's fo...

On today’s episode, watercolor artist Lindsay Stripling gets down to brass tacks when it comes to living a life and running a business as a creative freelancer. Lindsay shares the behind the scenes challenges and realities of sustaining a creative practice, running a side hustle, and working multiple jobs as you spin up doing something that you love. Tune in to hear about Lindsay’s path to art mak...

Kelly Inouye is a watercolor artist who runs an art space and turned a career in product design and a stack of rejection letters into a fulfilling life as a creative professional. In this episode, you'll learn how to rethink rejection, continue your education without returning to class, and get a better understanding of the factors that might make you––one day––pack up and leave your corporate job...

Stuart Schuffman is a blogger, travel writer, author, and even hosted his own show on IFC. He's also the creator of  Broke-Ass Stuart,  the popular travel and culture website that got him called names like, "underground legend" by  San Francisco Chronicle , "SF cult hero" by  San Francisco Bay Guardian , and "chief of cheap" by  Time Out New York . On today's episode Stuart talks about his path to...

Miranda Jones is cofounder of Galanter & Jones, a design and fabrication studio she runs with her brother Aaron. The company is best known for their beautiful, heated furniture. Miranda's path to the furniture business was anything but a straight line. She worked in publishing as an editor for  Sunset Magazine  and later for the popular website PopSugar. Earlier in her career, she spent time helpi...

Jesse Genet has always had the entrepreneurial spark. In high school, she created a T-shirt printing business. Later, Jesse launched two successful Kickstarter campaigns for the sunlight-activated fabric dye Inkodye. That startup ultimately transformed into Lumi, a company reimagining packaging for commerce brands. On today’s episode, Making Ways is live at In/Visible Talks, the new conference all...

On today’s show, we are live at General Assembly with Lara McCormick, the creative director for the Exploratorium, San Francisco’s historic hands-on science museum. Lara’s path to becoming a design leader and teacher is anything but ordinary. On this episode, she shares the twists and turns of her journey with great humor and insight. Lara recounts the lessons she learned from her first steps into...

Susa Cortez joins Making Ways for an inspiring conversation about her immigration to the United States from Mexico as a teenager and the drive that compelled her to become an artist. Susa was the first in her family to go to college, earning a BFA from the University of Delaware and a master’s degree in fine art from Herron School of Art and Design in Indianapolis, Indiana. Her work includes perfo...

On today’s episode of Making Ways , interdisciplinary artist Rea Lynn de Guzman joins the show to talk about her artist path and her experience emigrating from the Philippines. You’ll learn the meaning behind Rea’s work and hear the stories that define her, from a not-so-everyday childhood to her separation from her family in Manila to a drawing class she took in college while studying for a busin...

Fine artist Robert Minervini joins Making Ways podcast to discuss his path to becoming a professional artist. Robert's work has been exhibited nationally and examines utopia-inspired landscapes, cityscapes, and still-life. In this episode, you'll learn more about what it's really like to make a life as an artist, the influences from film and literature Robert infuses into his work, and his time in...

On today's show, fine artist, sculptor, and art educator Rachelle Reichert talks about her path to life as an artist. Rachelle discusses the curiosities that drove her to experiment with salt as a medium for sculpture and the research and creative work she does to bring together art and ecology. All this month, we are celebrating the 15-year anniversary of visual arts non-profit Root Division. Tun...

Julie Cloutier hails from Quebec, but has long called California home. After spending close to a decade working for small architectural firms in San Francisco, she grew restless. It wasn't until a round of layoffs finally instigated a giant sea change in her career. Julie followed an interest in ceramics to classes on nights and weekends while she worked at retail shops around the city. Soon Julie...

Iso Rabins first discovered his love of foraged foods after sourcing and then selling mushrooms out of his car to restaurant owners across San Francisco. Fast-forward to today and Iso has built a business around food education and cultivating entrepreneurship. He runs the restaurant incubator Forage Kitchen, hosts communal pop-up dinners as Wild Kitchen, and offers foraging excursions through Fora...

On this episode of Making Ways , fine artist, illustrator, teacher, and writer Veronica De Jesus discusses her path to life as an independent artist. Veronica shares the story of her harrowing upbringing on the road, recounts the moment in college when her inner artist was awakened, and how her acclaimed Memorial Drawings series first came to life in the impromptu window gallery of a bookstore. Tu...

On this episode of Making Ways podcast, we're joined by Valerie Luu and Katie Kwan, the food entrepreneurs behind the popular Vietnamese pop-up restaurant and street food catering company Rice Paper Scissors. Shortly after Valerie graduated from college and Katie found herself jobless after working as a biotech analyst––the two launched their first impromptu eatery in just three days. Since then,...

Alexandra Kenin joins the show to share how she left the corporate track to carve out her own independent path amongst the trees and parks of San Francisco as founder of Urban Hiker. Alexandra grew up in the suburbs of New Jersey before making her way to an MBA from the Wharton School. It was her time at business school that opened up the opportunity to join Google where she worked as a marketing...

As a kid, anytime Paul Madonna visited a relative's house, he made a habit out of racing for the newspapers and diving into the comic strips. It wasn't until years later, studying fine art at Carnegie Mellon, that this memory came rushing back as he realized his life's work wouldn't be in painting or illustration but rather an amalgam of words and pictures built on the foundation of the panel comi...

James Edmondson discovered his passion for letters early on in life after his father brought home some calligraphy pens from the supply store. It's been an obsession ever since. Today he is an award-winning type designer, instructor, speaker, and founder of OH no Type Co. On this episode of  Making Ways , James shares his path to honing in on a career designing fonts and the training, near and far...

On today's episode, acclaimed artist and creative director George McCalman joins the show to discuss the creative crisis that transformed him from award-winning magazine designer to illustrator, journalist, and independent creative director. George doesn't hold back in sharing his struggles, conflicts, and philosophies on what drives him creatively, making time to mentor (himself), and not caring...

Today’s episode of Making Ways features fine artist, sculptor, and commercial illustrator Jeremy Fish. Jeremy has been a mainstay of San Francisco’s art community and skateboarding scene for more than 20 years, ever since he made his way to the city from Albany, NY, to study at San Francisco Art Institute. In our conversation, Jeremy shares the challenges of living as an artist in one of America’s...

On this week’s episode, we’re joined by Windy Chien, an artist whose Year of Knots project captured the imaginary of collectors and fans across the world last year. Windy creates beautiful works of art with knots; she’s also known for her macramé helix lights and carved wooden spoons. Windy’s path to life as an artist might be the epitome of what this podcast is all about. Windy moved from Hawaii...

In this short bonus episode of Making Ways , guest Jen Hewett walks you through the process for screenprinting and block (or relief) printing. For anyone curious about the nuts and bolts of printmaking or interested in diving into producing work themselves––this three-minute bonus episode is for you. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.